Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
Fact and Fancy.

There are few editors of either sex who
stick more closely to their desks than docs
Miss Mary l.. Booth, of Hdrpcr's RdcGr.
FOR nineteen yearS-that is from the very
day OF the periodicals. establishment
Miss Booth has been in sole charge, it's
ONLY editor and responsible head. Dur
ing that time she has allowed herself no
holiday of any more than n summer fort
night. length, and is looking forward with
corresponding pleasure to a European ont
inc that she has planned for the coming
season. She will he out of the city for
five months or t~hereabOuts, she tells
me, sailing in April and returning
to her deserted sanctum in Sep
tember. From New York she
rOes to Rome by way of Paris and the
Riviera, and the rest at the trip depends on
the beguilements Of Italy and The amount
Of time it leaves for pilgrimagcs TO shrines
other than its own.
Miss Booth is a capital example for the
success possible to the modern woman.
She served her apprenticeship TO journal
ism through authorship, instead OF the re-
verse, rs is common nova days. Before
the DAYS of the Bd-dr she was known
through her history of New York City.
a careful and accurate work, and
through her translatiOns, many volumes
of which were published by New York
and Boston houses. She had a gift of rem
dering a foreign author into strong idiOma-
| tic English, clothing his thoughts in the
very ideal garb he would have chosen had
he known the tongue. Her version Of
Laboulaye's fairy tales stands alone in that
branch of literature. This translation of
Iaboulaye was one of the two books Of hers
that the Harpers handled before they offer
ed TO put into her hands a wOman's weekly
that they thought Of founding and that he
came the Bazaar. The result justified the
choice of an editor, for il would he hard TO
to ind a better conducted periodical or one
that meets more exactly the want it. was
created 10 supply.
Socially. the group that Mics Booth hls
gathered about her ut her Saturday even
Ing ''at homes Is another illustration ni
the fact often noticed nowadays that in the
feminine world the race j. no longer io the
school girl. The nOyelists' heroine has
grown ten or n dozen years older than She
used to be, and in actual life the differ-
ence is still more marked. It is the mn
ture woma who, in the ~fllness Of mental
power and experience, retains something
OF the enthusiasm Of youth who attracts 10
herself and keeps within her circle tie
men and the women who are best worth
knowing. Miss Booth has fifty years NJ
thercabOuts Of life behind her and her
drawing rooms constitute one of the three
or four notable salons Of the city.
Children's revival meetings are 4 new
feature OF Lent in New York. ! dropped
into a session the other day attended by
about 200 little people under exhortation.
The urchins ranged from 4 years old IN IL
or Whereabouts, and as the preacher held
mp before their eyes a crown of thorns that
he had brought from jerusalem, gave a
vivid word picture Of Christ's suffcrings on
the cross and swayed 10 and fro in panto-
mimic illustration of the Sayior's struggles,
there was an agony Of sObbing in the rom,
little arms We're flung about and little
bodies writhed in distress. / left the
chapel at the first pause in the discourse
meditatiDg on the hardihood OF a human
being who could deliberately DIVE n baby
into Mysteries.